Interesting Apple Facts - Part Two

• An apple tree must grow for about seven years from a seed until it bears fruit for the first time. He can be up to 100 years old.
• No wonder he is so juicy: an apple consists of 85 percent water. The rest is carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals and vitamins.
• The world's largest apple was harvested by Chisato Iwasaki in Japan in 2005, according to the Guinness Book of World Records: the gem weighed 1.849 kilograms.
• Germans love apples: Each of them eat almost 25 kilograms a year, for instance in cake, as juice or as pure fruit. That's about two million tons in total!
• Apples can also be subjected to DNA analysis. The result was: the forefather of our apple was the Malus sieversii (Asian wild apple) and originally comes from the mountains of today's southern Kazakhstan.